Is Your Food on Drugs?

painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo 

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You might be surprised by the truth.

Let’s talk GMO aka genetically modified organisms. This stuff shows up in 80% of US’s conventional processed food. Not to mention canola, corn, soy and cotton are the biggest GMO crops in the United States. But what does that all mean?

1. GMOs are plants (or animals!) that have been spliced with DNA from another species to create    hybrids that couldn’t exist in nature. We are talking frankenfood here.
2. Research is starting show that there are connections between GMOs and health and environmental problems. Read more here.
3. It is banned or heavily restricted in 50 nations around the world, including Japan, the entire European Union and Australia.
4. ...And yet most Americans couldn’t tell you what GMO means or if it’s in their food.

 Because the problem is that lobbyists of biotech companies don’t WANT you to know what’s in your food. And they have paid good money to keep it like that. California attempted to pass a bill recently that would force companies label GMO ingredients but unfortunately the proposition was rejected  after bioengineering monoliths like Monsanto threw their weight (read: the prop 37 opponents contributed 44 million dollars to making sure this proposition failed).

So where do you start?

The NonGMO Project is an excellent resource. They have lists of products,  restaurants and retailers that are certified GMO-free, not to mention a great deal of interesting articles pertaining to GMOs.